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Many authors have voiced their ideas about how human suffering is not only all over the world, but is largely ignored by people who are not affected by it. W.H. Auden’s Mussee des Beaux Arts is a prime analysis of this theory of suffering and other people’s attitudes toward it. It uses several small models of society and one very in depth analysis of Brueghel’s painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus to make his point that as a whole, mankind is insensitive to the distress of others. The author begins by giving examples of different groups of people, some in hope, some in despair, all in indifference to the feelings of others. He says that suffering takes a human position when people are “opening a window or walking dully along”(4) while around them is some great anticipation or crisis. The fact that the people ignore these types of suffering only enhances the despair and bleakness of it all. He says that while the aged are “reverently, passionately waiting for the miraculous birth”(5-6) there are children who do not particularly care “skating on a pond by the edge of the wood.” (7-8) While the older people are waiting for the birth of some great entity, or perhaps even a messiah, there are kids elsewhere p